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● PA-18: Last month, longtime Rep. Tim Murphy, a Republican who represents a conservative Western Pennsylvania seat, admitted to having an affair with a woman named Shannon Edwards. The story did not make Murphy look good, but given how many Republicans have stepped out on their wives and lived to tell the tale, it also didn't look like a potential career-ending scandal. That is, until Tuesday.
Campaign ActionThe Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Paula Reed Ward now reports that in January of this year, Edwards took Murphy to task for posting an anti-abortion message on Facebook, texting him, "[Y]ou have zero issue posting your pro-life stance all over the place when you had no issue asking me to abort our unborn child just last week when we thought that was one of the options."
Edwards' pregnancy scare turned out to be a false alarm, but Murphy has a long history of being an anti-abortion zealot. As Shareblue's Kaili Joy Gray writes, Murphy has co-sponsored unsuccessful bills to try to extend 14th Amendment protections to embryos, and he’s also a co-sponsor of a bill to ban abortion after 20 weeks that he literally voted in favor of the day this story broke.
So how did Murphy react to Edwards telling him to stop posting anti-abortion statements on social media? Murphy replied, "I get what you say about my March for life messages. I've never written them. Staff does them. I read them and winced. I told staff don't write any more. I will."
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